CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand – Hav­ing been com­pet­i­tive in both the pre­ced­ing T20I and One Day In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries against New Zealand, West In­dies head coach Daren Sam­my says the team is brim­ming with con­fi­dence ahead of their up­com­ing Test se­ries.

HAL­LAN­DALE BEACH, Flori­da – Saffie Joseph Jr ex­tend­ed his im­pres­sive win­ning streak at Gulf­stream Park by cap­tur­ing his 14th con­sec­u­tive cham­pi­onship meet ti­tle when the Sun­shine Meet con­clud­ed over the week­end.

​West In­dies head coach Daren Sam­my is back­ing his Test team to rise to the chal­lenge and se­cure a his­toric re­sult in New Zealand. The tour­ing side be­gins its quest for a first Test match and se­ries win on New Zealand soil since 1995, a drought stretch­ing three decades.

A sin­gle item from Ri­car­do John in the 70th minute en­sured Prison Ser­vices FC re­claimed their top po­si­tion in Tier 1 of the T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League on Sun­day, the sec­ond match of a dou­ble­head­er at the Ken Cooke Ground of the Po­lice Bar­racks in St James.

ST GEORGE’S, Grena­da – A dev­as­tat­ing spell of cal­cu­lat­ed spin bowl­ing from Vi­tel Lawes helped to pro­pel the West In­dies Un­der-19s to a com­pre­hen­sive 98-run vic­to­ry over their Eng­lish coun­ter­parts in the fourth Youth One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al here at the Na­tion­al Crick­et Sta­di­um on Mon­day, se­cur­ing a com­mand­ing 3-1 lead in the sev­en-match se­ries.

The lo­cal track and field fra­ter­ni­ty has lost throws coach Wade “Ba­by” Franklyn, who passed away on Mon­day morn­ing. He was 63 years old.

​Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary moved with­in two match­es of the Pre­mier Di­vi­sion ti­tle in the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) with a com­fort­able 5-2 tri­umph over Mal­ick Sec­ondary, on Mon­day, mov­ing them to 31 points.

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand – Vet­er­an bats­man Kane Williamson has been in­clud­ed in New Zealand’s 14-man squad for the first Test against the West In­dies in Christchurch, mark­ing his re­turn to the red-ball set­up.

T&T fin­ished in third place in both the women’s and men’s di­vi­sions of the Rug­by Amer­i­c­as North (RAN) Sev­ens tour­na­ment at the Lar­ry Gomes Sta­di­um in Mal­abar, Ari­ma.

In a rain-af­fect­ed CG Unit­ed Su­per50 Cup clash at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Force emerged vic­to­ri­ous by six runs over the Guyana Harpy Ea­gles via the Duck­worth-Lewis-Stern method af­ter per­sis­tent rain brought a pre­ma­ture end to the day/night en­counter in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do on Sun­day.

With the Pri­ma­ry Schools Foot­ball League Na­tion­al Cham­pi­onships com­ing to a close Wednes­day at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Cou­va, ex­cite­ment is build­ing.

Be­ing 'not racist' is not enough to elim­i­nate racial dis­crim­i­na­tion. An­ti-racism is root­ed in ac­tion to elim­i­nate racism at the in­di­vid­ual, in­sti­tu­tion­al, and struc­tur­al lev­els. The "let by­gones be by­gones" nar­ra­tive is in­tend­ed to si­lence and im­pede nec­es­sary dis­cus­sions about racism, and sab­o­tage an­ti-racist ef­forts.